What book would you keep forever? What book would you censor?

Participate in The Big Read by sharing your thoughts to the above questions. We have mounted two blank mural-sized pieces of paper to our main and third floor walls. Please drop by the Armacost Library to write your opinions on the designated wall space!

What is The Big Read?
"An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture."* The University of Redlands and the A. K. Smiley Public Library have been selected as grantees. From March 15 to April 25, 2009, events will be held within the community to highlight the importance of reading and books.

What are we reading?
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in which books are burned to ashes by firemen, media and drugs foster indifference in the general public, and learning is suppressed by the government.

How else can I participate?
Check the calendar detailing Redlands events at http://www.neabigread.org/events.php. You will need to refine your search with the various pull down menus. First, select "Fahrenheit 451", then "California" and finally "CA - University of Redlands".

Where can I get a copy of the book?
You can pick up a free copy of Fahrenheit 451 at Armacost Library, the Multicultural Center, or A. K. Smiley Public library while supplies last!

What else does Armacost Library have that I might be interested in?
At the Circulation Desk, we have a DVD and CD of an interview with Ray Bradbury! Just ask the front desk if you may check out the items listed under "Big Read".

If you want more information and fun, visit The Big Read - Redlands blog or The Big Read Redlands Facebook page.

*Arts Midwest. (2009). About the Big Read. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from http://www.neabigread.org/about.php.

Survey: Extended Library Hours During Finals Week

The library would like to extend hours during finals week again this semester. Please let us know what you think and respond to the survey!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=shy5lpbb8htk5aXFJEzkuw_3d_3d

Library Closed for the Weekend

Armacost Library will be closed Saturday and Sunday (February 21 & 22) due to a planned power outage related to the current construction project. We apologize for the short notice.

We will be open during Spring Break:

Monday-Thursday, February 23-26: 8 a.m. -6 p.m.
Friday, February 27: 8 a.m. -5 p.m.
Saturday, February 28: 10 a.m. -5 p.m.

Open Access Movement Takes a Step (for Mankind)

UC libraries and Springer sign pilot agreement for open access journal publishing

OAKLAND -- The University of California libraries and Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) have concluded a groundbreaking experimental agreement to support open access publishing by UC authors. The arrangement is part of the journals license negotiated by the California Digital Library on behalf of the 10 campuses of the University of California.

Under the terms of the agreement, articles by UC-affiliated authors accepted for publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored into the overall license. Articles will be released under a license compatible with the Creative Commons (by-nc: Attribution, Non-commercial) license. In addition to access via the Springer platform, final published articles will also be deposited in the California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository.

The University of California-Springer agreement is the first large-scale open access experiment of its type undertaken with a major commercial publisher in North America.

Armacost Library Undergraduate Research Award

Purpose
The proliferation of electronic information has made research a much more complex process than in the past. At the University of Redlands, students have available to them sources in paper and microfilm, electronically available through subscription databases and journals, as well as freely available on the open Web. Because so much information is available, evaluating sources of information takes increasingly more time and effort. This award was established to reward those students who demonstrate thoughtfulness and creativity in their approach to research and whose work exhibits excellence in critical thinking.

Eligibility

@Be a current University of Redlands undergraduate student (in any class or discipline).

@Eligible projects must have been completed for a University of Redlands credit course during the prior calendar year (e.g. for the 2009 award, eligible projects are those completed during Spring term 2008, May term 2008, or Fall term 2008).

@Projects must be accompanied by a letter of support from the faculty member who taught the course for which the paper/project was produced.

@All application materials will remain the property of the Library. Winning papers/projects will become a part of the Library collection.

Application Requirements and Procedure

Application will consist of:

@Application cover sheet

@Letter/email of support from supervising instructor.

@Research strategy essay (500-750 words) describing research process (including changes in the way student approached searching for information, new tools and resources discovered, interaction with reference librarians, use of interlibrary loan, and how sources were evaluated for credibility and relevance).

@Final version of research paper/project, including bibliography/reference list/ works cited.

Evaluation Criteria

@Make substantial and creative use of library resources in any format.

@Demonstrate effective application of information literacy principles:

@Determining information needs

@Evaluating and analyzing information

@Managing, organizing, and synthesizing information

@Applying information in the context of the research project

@Making responsible use of information by providing appropriate and accurate citations.

@Show evidence of significant personal growth in the methods of research and inquiry.

Award and Deadlines

@A monetary prize of $500.00 will awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate research project.

@Complete application packets must be received by 5:00pm, Friday, March 6.

@Mail or deliver complete application package to:
Armacost Library Undergraduate Research Award Committee
c/o Shana Higgins
1249 E. Colton Ave.
Redlands, CA 92374

@The winner will be notified no later than April 10, 2009. Award recipient and faculty will be honored at a reception near the end of the Spring term.

For forms and guidelines, go to: http://libguides.redlands.edu/UndergradAward.

Welcome Back and a Welcome!

We are happy for the return of the hum of students, faculty, and staff back in the Library as the semester begins. Welcome back! (Unfortunately, we still have the bumps, scrapes, and shrill noises from the construction on the first floor during the day.)

We also welcome a new face to the library, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, a Visiting Reference Librarian. You will see Melissa at the reference desk and visiting your classes, eager to help students in the research process. Melissa has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from San Francisco State University, graduate studies at Claremont in cultural studies, and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She has particular interests in Asian diasporas, cultural anthropology, sociology, games in libraries, web/library 2.0, and the study of popular culture. Melissa is fluent in Tagalog, the native dialect of the Philippines, where she was raised until arriving in the U.S. as a teenager. Some of Melissa's guilty pleasures include World of Warcraft (she is a level 77 female night elf hunter named Linnar in the Sen’Jin realm), Hayao Miyazaki films, William Gibson's cyberpunk Neuromancer trilogy, and Sanrio characters. Come in and ask her some questions!

Happy Holidays

See you in January.

Extended Library Hours During Finals Week

The Library will extend its open hours during final exams.














Our extended hours are the following:

Tuesday, December 9, 8:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Wednesday, December 10, 8:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Thursday, December 11, 8:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Friday, December 12, 8:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Coffee and refreshments will be served at midnight, to get you through the long night.

*Image by solja, found on Flickr.

Library Photography and Digital Art Contest is Up!

Congratulations to all participants in the Library Photography and Digital Art Contest!

The results for the contest are as follows:
1st place: Embrace It by Michelle Deyden
2nd place: Light Dance by Chelsea Crowl and Untitled by Laura Conner

Please come by the Library to view the creative work of our artistic community!






Image credit: Chapel Against the Hills by Kevin Keller

Welcome Eugene Owens to the Armacost Library

Eugene is a Visiting Assistant Librarian, looking forward to helping students at the reference desk and meeting new people. He will collect books for the library on Psychology, Religious Studies and Philosophy. He is excited about buying some new books for the popular fiction area near the circulation desk. Eugene will be providing library research instruction in the Spring term, so look for him in your class.

Having just flown in from Boston, he is still getting used to the sun, wearing shorts in November and all the cars. Eugene enjoys seeing loud music in small venues, such as The Mars Volta and Deerhoof. He is looking forward to seeing the Melvins over the Thanksgiving break at the Troubadour. Moreover Eugene wants to be part of the intelligentsia someday, but is afraid he reads too much trashy fiction.

Go Vote!

Election 2008

With the November 4th election fast approaching, how do you sift through the "truthiness" of claims and accusations made during the debates, in political advertisements, in campaign phone calls received, and those of your friends and classmates? Here are a few Internet sites that will help you make decisions about all those claims and more.

Project Vote Smart
The organization defines themselves as "thousands of citizens (conservative and liberal alike) working together, spending endless hours researching the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data (including their work history) and evaluations of them generated by over 100 competing special interest groups." Compare what candidates say to their actual voting records, compare candidate positions on issues, and keep track of what candidates have said in public statements.

You Choose '08--YouTube
YouTube has created a centralized hub of candidate-created Channels that feature campaign videos, speeches, informal chats, behind-the-scenes footage and more.

SourceWatch
SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. In the spirit of Wikipedia, this wiki can be edited by anyone of us with an interest seeing through deceptive information. However, unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing ("This means that every piece of information in an article should be accompanied by a link to an authoritative source for that information."), and is overseen by a paid editor.

Election 2008 Government Information from the Jean & Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University
A portal to various Internet resources related to Election 2008, from general election information to campaign finance to Statistics and Polls to voter participation sites.

Be an informed citizen when you vote on Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond has developed a series of "cinematic maps" that visualize "American voting patterns as they moved across the landscape of the United States": Voting America. The maps combine political data with GIS cartography in order to create animated maps of "how Americans voted in presidential elections at the county level for the past 164 years." As you study the current presidential election with your students, these interactive maps visualize voting patterns in relation to voter turnout, population, popular votes versus electoral votes, party strength, etc.

The site also includes several video expert analysis and commentary on the maps, including Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater's "Shifting Party Coalitions and Social Welfare Policy, 1932-2008."

Treasures from the American Film Archives

The National Film Preservation Foundation has produced several DVD collections of early American film, all three of which the Armacost Library owns. Consider using these historical visual collections in U.S. history courses, as well as race & ethnic studies, women's studies, and business history courses. Included in the three collections are early political ads, product advertising, news reels, avant garde films, training films, social issue films, and much more. You might want to view footage from Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork in a literature course, watch the "racial tolerance epic" Redskin (1929) in a U.S. history course, or view Lois Weber's anti-abortion, pro-birth control classic, Where Are My Children? (1916), in a women's history course. Take a look at these treasures!

Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films
PN1993.5.U6 T74 2005
More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films
PN1993.5.U6 M67 2004
Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934
PN1995.9.S62 T73 2007

Farewell, Verletta!

Please join the faculty and staff of Armacost Library in wishing a fond farewell to Electronic Services Librarian, Verletta Kern. In her five years at the University of Redlands, Verletta has not only made access to the library more seamless (maintaining access to the online catalog, getting the proxy server in place for off-campus access to databases, updating library webpages, implementing Web 2.0 services, etc.) but also has built a music collection worthy of our undergraduate and graduate programs in the School of Music. Verletta's research has included citation analysis of music student theses and she has also presented on her work with the Barney Childs Collection. She is very involved with the Music Library Association and has served the University on various committees. We will miss her.

Verletta leaves us to take a position at the Music Library at University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. Our best wishes travel with her.

Armacost Library Facelift

The entryway to Armacost Library will be receiving a facelift including elevator access to the front of the building! Beginning Monday, July 21st patrons of Armacost Library will be asked to enter the library through tunnels on the east and west sides of the building. These tunnels will serve as the main entry to the library until the summer of 2009 when the construction project is completed.

On July 28th, our construction team will begin the process of removing the library’s portico. The library will be closed and reference, interlibrary loan and reserves services will be suspended from July 28th to August 5th while this intensive construction takes place. We thank you for your patience and understanding during the construction period.

You may view the construction progress on our building by visiting the library’s Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/armacostlibrary/ or by viewing the library on the bulldog cam http://www.redlands.edu/webcam.xml

Farewell, Angelynn!

The faculty and staff of Armacost Library are saying goodbye to a longtime colleague, Angelynn King. During her tenure at University of Redlands she served first as Access Services Librarian, then as Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, and finally as Technical Services Librarian. Angelynn has published articles and given presentations on information literacy and plagiarism, equitable access to information, Internet research habits of undergraduate students, health issues, and library humor. She has taught credit-bearing courses at the University of Redlands with topics ranging from “Buddhism in America” to “Information, Knowledge, and Power in the Electronic Age.” Her contributions to the Library and the University will be greatly missed.


Angelynn leaves us to take a position as Library Director of the Merrill Library at the University of Maine at Machias. We wish her all the best.

Wild Weather at Armacost Library

The academic year ended with a bang last week as a rare hail storm blanketed the ground near Armacost Library.







Special thanks to Trisha Aurelio and Allison Fox for the photos.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Armacost Library is pleased to welcome a new database to its online collection. Oxford Islamic Studies Online combines entries from reference works and primary sources with topics ranging from global Islamic history to politics and culture. Timelines are viewable for both world and Islamic events from 542 to the present day. Other features include a prose translation and concordance of the Qur’an, images, maps, and even a date converter. Oxford Islamic Studies Online can be found on the library’s Database by Title and Databases by Subject web pages. As always, if you have questions or need help please ask a librarian!

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

May is officially designated Asian Pacific American Month. This is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of Asian/Pacific Americans to the culture and history of the United States. May was chosen for recognition because of two significant events. May 7, 1843 saw the first arrival of Japanese immigrants to the United States. And the transcontinental railroad, the building of which included many Chinese laborers, was completed May 10, 1869.

Take some time out from your studies this May Term, and immerse yourself in Asian/Pacific American culture with these books and movies…

Fiction

Carbó, Nick and Eileen Tabios. Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2000.

Jen, Gish. Typical American. New York: Plume, 1992.

Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara, eds. Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. New York: Asian American Writer’s Workshop, 2000.

Srikanth, Rajini and Esther Y. Iwanaga, eds. Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

Non-Fiction

Kibria, Nazli. Becoming Asian American: Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, eds. Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007.

Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Yoo, David. Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese-Americans of California, 1924-1949. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

DVDs/Videos

Bruce Lee: The Master Collection, 1999.

The Joy Luck Club, 1994.

Los Angeles Now, 2004.

Monsoon Wedding, 2002.

Roots in the Sand, 1998.

Also check out…

24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, May 1-8, 2008

Connecting Cultures: Music of the Mekong River from Smithsonian Global Sound Archives

On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints, Library of Congress Exhibition

Librart/Audiopsy

Armacost Library (Verletta Kern) and MLuM members of the School of Music will present Librart/Audiopsy, a site-specific sound work and exploration of library science as an aesthetic procedure and category. The work will feature music and wall projections. Please join us for Librart/Audiopsy on Friday, April 11th, 2008 from 7-9 PM in Armacost Library. An informal lecture about the work will be given in the Music/Film Room of Armacost Library at 8 PM.

Visual Media and Presidential Campaigns

As presidential campaigning intensifies toward the November 4th election we’ll be seeing more and more presidential campaign advertisements and media coverage. Visual portrayals of candidates play a powerful part in swaying opinions and forming voter decisions.

For those interested in presidential campaign ads, take a look at these two excellent online sources (available free of charge).

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials,
1952-2004 from the Museum of the Moving Image is an archive of some of the more “famous” presidential campaign commercials from Eisenhower to Nixon to Kerry

And

Campaign 2008: Presidential Primary Campaign Ads from Stanford’s Political Communication Lab provides access to current campaign commercials.

Women's History Month

March is National Women's History Month. In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women established a "Women's History Week" celebration. The week of March 8th was chosen to spotlight International Women’s Day. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) co-sponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution declaring a National Women’s History Week with the support of schools and women’s and girls’ organizations across the country. Celebrating women’s history was extended to span the entire month of March in 1987 with the support of the National Women’s History Project.

There are many ways to celebrate the wide variety of women’s experiences and of women’s histories at the University of Redlands.

EVENTS

Clare Weber, U.S. Peace Activist in Nicaragua reading and discussion, From War to Women’s Activism and Globalization. Tuesday, March 18th @ 4:30PM in Hall of Letters #213.

Ai Xiaoming, feminist literary scholar and co-producer and director of the Chinese version of the Vagina Monologues will be screening her documentary film, Care and Love about the AIDS epidemic in China. Wednesday, March 19th @ 7:00PM in Appleton Hall #116.

LUNAFEST: Short Films by...for...about women. Friday, March 21st @ 7:00PM, Orton Center. $5.00 (University of Redlands), $10.00 (General Public).

BOOKS

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in Music. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus, 2001.

Hewitt, Nancy A., ed. A Companion to American Women's History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Porter, Karra. Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Rowland, Debran. The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America. Naperville, Illinois: Sphinx Publishing, 2004.

DVDS/VIDEOS

More Treasures from the American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films, 2004.

Portrait of a Muckraker: The Stories of Jessica Mitford, 1986.

Rosie the Riveter, 2001.

These books, dvds, and videos and many more can be found in the library catalog. Take a look!

Engaging Hiroshima-Nagasaki Today

Armacost Library is pleased to be one of several sites on campus hosting a poster exhibition entitled Engaging Hiroshima-Nagasaki Today. The exhibition will run until March 28th. For more information on the exhibition and related events, please see the University website http://www.redlands.edu/x35021.xml

Farewell, Susan!

The faculty and staff of Armacost Library wish a fond farewell to Off-Campus Services Librarian Susan Clayton. During the past five years at Armacost Library, Susan has advanced both book and online holdings for the Schools of Business and Education and the Department of Business. In service to the School of Business, Susan traveled to the various satellite locations promoting library services. She has authored articles and presented papers on topics of copyright and library instruction for distance education programs and edited a book, Going the Distance: Library Instruction for Remote Learners. Susan is recognized by her colleagues as a patient and dedicated librarian who works meticulously to serve all library patrons both on and off-campus. We wish Susan well as she begins her new position as Assistant Director of the Lake County Library system.

Celebrating Black History Month

Observed annually in the month of February, Black History Month celebrates and honors the achievements and contributions made by African Americans to the cultural, economic, spiritual, and political development of the United States. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, proposed the establishment of “Negro History Week” in February 1926. The week would honor the history and contributions of African Americans to American life. Dr. Woodson chose the second week in February because it coincides with the birthdays of two men of importance to the African American community: Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (February 14). In the early 1970s Negro History Week became Black History Week, and in 1976 was expanded to a month-long observance.

Celebrate Black History Month locally by attending events in our area and by checking out the Armacost Library's collections.

Events

Charles Holt in Black Boy, a one-man play. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at the Orton Center, 7:30PM.


Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt. Monday, February 18 at the Orton Center, 7:00PM.


The San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation's Black History Parade, Expo and Ball. Saturday, February 2, 2008.


Books

Fiction

Himes, Chester. Cotton Comes to Harlem. New York: Vintage Books, 1965.

Jones, Edward P. The Known World. New York: Amistad, 2003.

Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1973.

Mosley, Walter. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. New York: Washington Square Press, 1998.

Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.

Non-Fiction

Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Baraka, Amiri. Black Music. New York: W. Morrow, 1967.

Conrad, Cecilia. African Americans in the U.S. Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Hooks, Bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

DVDs and Videos

BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)

Color Adjustment (2004)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Malcolm X (1992)

Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema (2002)



Image titled "Black Flappers" posted by discoverblackheritage at Flickr

Primary Facts

California’s February 5th primary is fast approaching. Need more information on the candidates or propositions? Want to register to vote or find a local polling place? Here are some sites that can help!

California Voter’s Guide
http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/
Provides information on California’s propositions as well as statements from each Presidential candidate.

California Voter Registration
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm
Find out how to register to vote in California along with voter registration deadlines.

CQ Politics 2008 Primary Guide
http://innovation.cq.com/primaries
Provides a primary map, information on the number of delegates from each state, campaign finance information.

League of Women Voters
http://www.vote411.org/
Find out how to register to vote anywhere in the United States or how to vote absentee. Also provides information on ballot measures from across the United States and much more.

NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1102
Lists dates for each state primary along with candidate profiles.

Polling Stations for San Bernardino County
http://gis1.sbcounty.gov/sbcwebs/vrlookup/search.asp
Find out where you can go to vote on primary night.

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
Locates information on voter registration and ballot measures from across the United States.


The library also owns books written by the candidates.

Hillary Clinton

HQ792.U5 C57 1996
Clinton, Hillary. It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

E887.C55 A3 2003b
Clinton, Hillary. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.


John McCain

E840.8.M467 A3 1999
McCain, John. Faith of My Fathers. New York: Random House, 1999.


Barack Obama

Popular 1352
Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the

American Dream. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.

E185.97.O23 A3 2004
Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

Special thanks to Bill Kennedy for providing suggested websites

Meet the Librarians!

Les Canterbury
Les Canterbury is the Acting Library Director and Collection Development Librarian. As Director he gets to go to meetings and sign lots of paperwork. As Collection Development Librarian he coordinates acquisition of books, films, CDs, journals, skeletons, etc. He also hangs out at the Reference Desk and enjoys working in class with students on their information pursuits. His subject areas include environmental studies, anthropology, psychology, biology, physical education and economics.

Les plays ultimate (Go Jackalopes!), brings cheesesteaks home on the plane from Philadelphia, reads as much as he can, loves LA and Finland, and keeps score at Bulldog basketball games. He is a big fan of the English department.

Fun Facts: Les has learned recently that he is pseudomyopic and has Alsatian blood.

Susan Clayton
Susan has been the Off-Campus Services/Reference Librarian for the past five years. She is the library liaison to the School of Business and School of Education. Her primary subject responsibilities are business, education, communicative disorders, and German. When she is not traveling around the greater Los Angeles area visiting the School of Business campuses or meeting with students at the School of Education, Susan enjoys fixing up her home, visiting Oak Glen, and spending quality time with her two cats, Tipper and Buddy.

Fun Fact: Susan spent many winters in upstate New York near Buffalo and is happy to be living in the land of sunshine.

Allison Fox
Starting in Nov. 2006 as a Temporary Reference Librarian, Allison became a Visiting Reference Librarian in June 2007. She helps people with their research, troubleshoots printer issues, and processes a portion of the Barney Childs collection. She serves as the subject librarian for English language and literature, Theatre studies, and popular music. Allison spends much of her spare time reading, and fancies herself a writer. She expends a great deal of mental energy on the formation of the perfect wardrobe, travels whenever time and finances permit, goes to concerts, snowboards, hikes, knits, rides horses and plays piano and oboe.

Fun Facts: Allison memorized the entire fifth act of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in one afternoon and performed as Olivia that evening during her freshman year of college.

Lua Gregory
Lua began her position as Visiting Assistant Librarian in September of 2007. Currently Lua serves as subject librarian for technology and sociology with shared responsibilities in government. Lua loves reading, punk rock shows, pepperoni pizza, astronomy, ink drawing, and Stanley Kubrick films.

Fun Facts: Lua earned her brown belt in Okinawan style karate and studied Japanese for three years.

Shana Higgins
Shana has served as Reference/Instructional Services Librarian since July 2006. As the Instructional Services Librarian, Shana coordinates library research instruction for faculty and students in the College of Arts & Sciences. She is the liaison for Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies, Spanish and Women’s Studies with shared responsibility for Communicative Disorders and Film Studies. In her spare time Shana enjoys reading, watching movies and television, hiking in the mountains surrounding our area, and perusing food blogs.

Fun Facts: Shana had a first career as a pastry chef/baker in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a weakness for science fiction.

Bill Kennedy
Bill serves the Head of Reference and Government Documents Librarian. He coordinates the reference desk schedule and masters the trickiest of reference questions. Bill serves as subject liaison to Asian Studies, GIS, History, Humanities, and Philosophy with shared duties in Government. In his spare time, Bill drinks coffee and reads faculty review files.

Fun Facts: Bill has a summer home in Vietnam and has worked as a forest ranger.

Verletta Kern
Verletta has served as Reference/Electronic Services Librarian for over three years. As Electronic Services Librarian, Verletta coordinates the library website, all library databases and the library catalog. She serves as subject librarian for music, art, dance, and computer science with shared responsibilities in film and government. In her spare time Verletta enjoys reading, playing bass clarinet, walking Porter the beagle, and eating ice cream.

Fun Facts: Verletta studied Norwegian for three semesters and spent her summers during high school detasseling corn.

Angelynn King
Angelynn is the Technical Services Librarian, although she has also worked in Bibliographic/Information Literacy Instruction and in Access Services. Her current subject liaison areas include science, religion and French. In her spare time Angelynn enjoys reading, scuba diving, and making soup, but not at the same time.

Fun Facts: Angelynn once had a volunteer job taking care of the bears at the zoo.

Mr. Bones takes time out from his busy schedule to demonstrate various library functions...

Mr. Bones circulates books.
More than stamping books, he likes collecting late fees.

"...we have five books within the subject heading 'Vampires in Literature'."
A little light reading.
Mr. Bones masters the microfilm reader.


Mr. Bones' favorite globe.
Planning his next vacation--to take place in 1949, if the map is correct.
If only this were Hogwarts...
and the books shelved themselves.
Mr. Bones often finds himself depressed by the overwhelming wealth of information available.
Not too depressed to read, of course.

"Why am I here, anyway?"
Mr. Bones' exemplary response to existential questions...

November is National American Indian Heritage Month

“Offering to the Sun.” Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's 'The North American Indian': the Photographic Images, 2001.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html


November is an opportunity to recognize and commemorate the contributions, culture, and traditions of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Armacost library has some great resources, including books, films and music, for those interested in delving into American Indian heritage.

Books

E98 .P74 C9 1970
Cronyn, George William, editor. American Indian poetry; an anthology of

songs and chants. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

E98 .G2 F6
Fletcher, Alice C. Indian games and dances with native songs,

arranged from American Indian ceremonials and sports. Boston: C. C. Birchard & Company, 1915.

E98 .F6 N386 2004
Kroeber, Karl, ed. Native American storytelling : a reader of myths and

legends. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Ref. PN6081.4 .A43 1996
Langer, Howard J., ed. American Indian quotations. Westport, Conn.:

Greenwood Press, 1996.

E98 .D2 L28
Laubin, Reginald and Gladys. Indian dances of North America : their

importance to Indian life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.

E99 .T6 M5
Miller, Polly. Lost heritage of Alaska; the adventure and art of the Alaskan

coastal Indians. New York: Bonanza Books, [1967].

PS508 .I5 N67 2001
Purdy, John and James Ruppert. Nothing but the truth : an anthology of

Native American literature. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c2001.

E98 .A7 S358 1994
Schmidt, Jeremy. In the spirit of mother earth : nature in Native American

art. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [c1994].

E56 .A56 1994
Smithsonian Institution. All roads are good : native voices on life and

culture. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.

E98 .F6 V665 2004
Swann, Brian, ed. Voices from four directions : contemporary translations

of the Native literatures of North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

Music

Creation's journey: Native American music.
M1669 .C74 1994 [CD]
Ceremonial, social and contemporary music of Native Americans.

Ghostdance
M1669 .M48 G48 2000 [CD]
This album, by Bill Miller, won five Native American Music Awards in 2000 for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Song of the Year.

Indians, Indians
M1669 .M57 I6 [CD]
Native American flute music by Robert Mirabal.

Moving within the circle: contemporary Native American music and dance
M1669 .B8 1994 [CD]
A variety of Indian tribes contributed to this album.

Sundance Season
Available Online
Religious ritual music in observation of the Sun Dance; performed on Native American flute by the composer, R. Carlos Nakai.

Films

Hisatsinom : the ancient ones (1984)
E99 .P9 H4 1984 [Video]
Captures the spirit of the Indian dwellings at Chaco Canyon, Betatakin, Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, and other sites in the San Juan system.

Joy Harjo (1989)
PS3558 .A62423 A6 1989 [Video]
"Joy Harjo, one of the most important Native American poets and author of 'She had Some Horses', reads for the Laguna Poets in Laguna Beach and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams."—Container

"Tell them Willie Boy is here” (1983)
PN1995.9 .W4 T44 1983 [Video]
A modern western classic based on the true story of a Paiute Indian, named Willie Boy, and his bride who become the objects of the last great Western manhunt after he kills her father in a "marriage by capture".

Web sites

National American Indian Heritage Month 2007
http://www.doi.gov/bia/na-month.pdf
A brief history of the origins of National American Indian Heritage Month by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/aian/index.html
Here you will find statistical data on the American Indian and Alaskan Native population compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071031-2.html
A proclamation from George W. Bush on American Indian Heritage Month.

Compiled by Lua Gregory

Unite Strong Protest

On November 8th Unite Strong protested against lack of access to the Armacost Library.

Recent Books on Pakistan

DS384 .A27 2005
Abbas, Hassan. Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E.

Sharpe, 2005.

HV5840 .P18 A73 2003
Asad, Amir Zada, and Robert Harris. The Politics and Economics of Drug

Production on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border. Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.

Ref. DS382 .B87 2006
Burki, Shahid Javed. Historical Dictionary of Pakistan. Lanham, Md.:

Scarecrow Press, 2006.

DS376.9 .C63 2004
Cohen, Stephen P. The Idea of Pakistan. Washington, D.C.: Brookings

Institution Press, 2004.

UA840 .I455 2003
Dudley, William, ed. India and Pakistan: Opposing Viewpoints. Farmington

Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press; San Diego: Thomson/Gale, 2003.

DS485 .K27 G368 2001
Ganguly, Sumit. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.

New York: Columbia University Press; Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001.

DS450 .P18 G37 2005
Ganguly, Sumit. Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of

Nuclear Weapons. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

JQ629 .A38 C585 2005
Haqqani, Husain. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. Washington,

D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005.

DS384 .H55 2004
Jaffrelot, Christophe, ed. A History of Pakistan and Its Origins. London:

Anthem, 2004.

DS382 .J66 2002
Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. New Haven:

Yale University

Press, 2002.

DS389.22 .M87 A3 2006
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York: Free Press,

2006.

UA832.7 .R35 2005
Rajain, Arpit. Nuclear Deterrence in Southern Asia: China, India,

and Pakistan. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2005.

DS380 .M83 V47 2004
Verkaaik, Oskar. Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in

Pakistan. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

DS384 .W43 2002
Weaver, Mary Anne. Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

DS384 .Z5717 2003
Ziring, Lawrence. Pakistan: At the Crosscurrent of History. Oxford,

England: Oneworld, 2003.

Compiled by Les Canterbury

Library Research Guides

Ever wondered how to cite a journal article in your bibliography or where to locate your course reserves? The library can help! We have put together research guides on topics ranging from how to evaluate websites to how to determine if your article is a scholarly journal or popular resource. Citation Style Guides are available for APA, Chicago, CSE, MLA, and Turabian citation styles. These guides can be found under the heading Library Services on the library's website (http://www.redlands.edu/library.xml) or in the library's new handout display rack located near the reference desk. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask a librarian!

Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15

Latino Pride, Shariff Dahlan and Francisco Carrasco (1997), San Francisco. Photograph taken by Franco Follini.


On September 17, 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim National Hispanic Heritage Week, observed during the week including September 15th and 16th. In 1974 the observance was extended by President Gerald R. Ford’s proclamation for it to begin September 10th through the 16th. Again on August 17, 1988 Congress passed another law which authorized President Ronald Reagan to expand the observance to a month-long celebration.

September 15th was chosen as an opening date for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16th and 18th, respectively. This month is an opportunity to honor and celebrate the contributions, cultures, and traditions of the many U.S. residents who locate their heritage from Spanish-speaking nations.

The Armacost Library has some great fiction and nonfiction titles of interest to those who wish to explore what it means to be Latina/o or of Hispanic descent.

Fiction

Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. New York: Plume, 1992.

Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007.

Bencastro, Mario. Odyssey to the North. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1998.

Ferré, Rosario. La casa de la laguna. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Moraga, Cherrie. Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso Por Sus Labios. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2000.

Nonfiction

Berg, Charles Ramírez. Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, Resistance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Montero-Sieburth, Martha and Edwin Melendez. Latinos in a Changing Society. Westport, Conn.: Praiger, 2007.

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Noriega, Chon A. and Ana M. López. The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts. Minneapolis, Minn.: Univeristy of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Tatum, Charles. Chicano Popular Culture: Que Hable el Pueblo. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

DVD and Video

My American Girls: A Dominican Story (2001)
The Bronze Screen (2002)
El Gigante Awakens (2007)
Selena (1997)

Take a look in the Armacost Library catalog for these titles and many more.

Hollywood Librarian

What comes to mind when you hear the word “librarian”? The Hollywood Librarian is a new documentary examining the portrayal of librarians in film interspersed with interviews from real life, practicing librarians. Written and directed by Ann Siedl, a librarian herself, the film explores and questions stereotypes often associated with librarians. You may view the Hollywood Librarian this week at a special screening at Loma Linda University. Please see below for more information.

What: Screening of the Hollywood Librarian
When: Thursday, October 4, 2007
Where: Randall Amphitheater, Loma Linda University Libraries
Tickets: $8 for Adults (12-60)

$5 for Children and Seniors

Free for Children under 6, Library Staff, Librarians and Library School Students

You may reserve tickets at (909) 558-4550 or libref@llu.edu

For more information on the film, please visit the film’s website at http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com/

New Databases

Armacost Library recently added six new databases to the digital collection.

AnthroSource
Created through the partnership of the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press, AnthroSource is one of the leading sources for anthropological research. AnthroSource provides journal citations, full text of the American Anthropological Association's current peer-reviewed publications, and links to articles in JSTOR. AnthroSource is available both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
A citation database, BAS hold over 680,000 citations to periodicals, books, conference proceedings, and anthologies. Subject matter reaches from the humanities to social sciences. BAS is available both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

ComDis Dome
ComDis Dome provides citations for the communication sciences and disorders. The Dome indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, grants, and more. ComDis Dome is available both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

Education Research Complete
An EBSCO database Education Research Complete indexes over 1,500 journals and provides full text access to over 750 journals and 100 books. Database topics range from early childhood to higher education. Education Research Complete is available both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Designed and supported by UCLA, HAPI contains citations to journal articles, books, literary works, and more. The database covers a broad range of topics and geographical locations, including Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics/Latinos in United States. HAPI is available both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

JSTOR Music Collection
The JSTOR Music Collection provides full text access to thirty-two scholarly music journals. Topics range from musicology to music theory. The JSTOR Music Collection is available as a part of the library's larger JSTOR database subscription both on and off-campus using the proxy server.

These databases can be found on the library's Databases by Title and Databases by Subject web pages.

Cool Things On The Internet

Harvard University Library has made a number of their collections available online. Through Harvard's Open Collections Program (OCP), the University advances teaching and learning on historical topics of great relevance by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums. OCP's highly specialized "open collections" are developed through careful collaborations among Harvard's distinguished faculty, librarians, and curators.

Two "open collections" are currently accessible: Women Working, 1800-1930, and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930. They are currently developing two additional collections: Contagion: Historical Views of Contagious Disease and the Islamic Heritage Project. These collections include digitized books, maps, photographs, pamphlets, etc.



Other online collections made available by Harvard University include: Digital Scores from the Collections of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, and the Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection, to name just a few.

For those of us without means to travel to Harvard to utilize their rich resources of archival and historical material (primary sources), these digitized collections open up a whole new world. Check out Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program as well as their other web-accessible collections.

What's New at the Library?

What does the following list of materials have in common?

Berry, Chris and Mary Farquhar.  China on Screen.  New York:  Columbia
     University Press,  2006.

Carter, Jimmy.  Palestine:  Peace Not Apartheid.  New York:  Simon &
     Schuster, 2006.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Dancing in the Streets:  A History of Collective Joy. 
     New York:  Metropolitan Books, 2007.

Eton Choirbook Collection.  Coro Cor16040, 2001-2004.  5 Compact
     Discs.

Feinstein, Lee.  Darfur and Beyond:  What is Needed to Prevent Mass
     Atrocities.  New York:  Council on Foreign Relations, 2007.

Krygier, John and Denis Wood.  Making Maps:  A Visual Guide to Map
     Design for GIS.  New York:  Guilford Press, 2005. 

Pastoureau, Michel.  Blue:  The History of a Color.  Princeton:  Princeton
     University Press, 2001.

Rebora, Giovanni.  Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Food in Europe. 
     New York:  Columbia University Press, 2001.

Roberts, Adam.  The History of Science Fiction.  New York:  Palgrave
     Macmillan, 2006.

Sybil.  Directed by Daniel Petrie.  Warner Home Video, 2006.  DVD.

Theroux, Louis.  The Call of the Weird:  Travels in American Subcultures. 
     Cambridge:  Da Capo Press, 2007.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  What to Do When a Friend
     is Depressed.  Bethesda:  National Institute of Mental Health, 2000.

No idea?  These items are posted on our New Items List.  Each month, the library posts a list of new items added to the collection.  To see what items we added in June, go to our website http://www.redlands.edu/library and click on the link for the library catalog.  From there you should see the link in the middle column labeled labeled "New Items Acquired."  Check back at the beginning of each new month for the latest list.  To locate a specific item on this list, try searching the library catalog.

June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

On June 2, 2000 President William J. Clinton proclaimed June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in the United States. In the President’s words: “This June, recognizing the joys and sorrows that the gay and lesbian movement has witnessed and the work that remains to be done, we observe Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and celebrate the progress we have made in creating a society more inclusive and accepting of gays and lesbians. I hope that in this new millennium we will continue to break down the walls of fear and prejudice and work to build a bridge to understanding and tolerance, until gays and lesbians are afforded the same rights and responsibilities as all Americans.” June was designated Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in commemoration of the historic Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969.

The Armacost Library has some great fiction and nonfiction titles for commemorating LGBT history, contributions, politics, etc.

Fiction

Allsison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Dutton, 1992.

Bechdel, Allison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1987.

Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., 1973

Burroughs, Augusten. Running With Scissors: A Memoir. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Nonfiction

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Miceli, Melinda. Standing Out, Standing Together: The Social and Political Impact of Gay-Straight Alliances. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Faderman, Lillian. Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Hull, Kathleen. Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Freccero, Carla. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Butler, Judith P. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge, 1993.

DVD and Video

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Fresa y Chocolate (1994)
Paris is Burning (1990)
Watermelon Woman (1997)
The Wedding Banquet (1994)

Take a look in the Armacost Library catalog for these titles and many more.


image by ohad*, Flickr

Summer Hours

As summer is fast approaching, we wanted to make everyone aware of our summer hours. Effective May 29, Armacost Library will be open the following hours:

Tuesday-Thursday: 1 p.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Reference librarians will be available during the hours we are open to answer questions in person, over the phone at (909) 748-4724, and through AIM chat (screen name: askurlib). We hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing you in the library!

Have You Used JSTOR Recently?

JSTOR, the database that provides searchable full-text historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business, has updated its interface and site navigation this past year. Now it’s more easily navigatable and more compatible with other databases. The Advanced Search function now allows searching by familiar categories—full-text, author, title, etc. When viewing articles your keywords are highlighted in yellow and you can readily navigate to pages where your search terms appear. Of particular interest are the links to “Articles Citing this Article,” “Articles by [author],” and “Related Articles” within JSTOR and via Google Scholar. These links can lead you to a broader literature on a particular subject area. Happy searching!

One City, One Book

Bon Voyage, Jean!

The faculty and staff of Armacost Library wish our esteemed Library Director Jean Swanson a fond farewell. Jean will retire in May 2007 following twenty years of service to the University of Redlands and the Armacost Library. In her time at the University of Redlands Jean has supervised and participated in the Armacost Library’s continuing evolution. Under Jean’s leadership the Library has moved from the card catalog through a CDROM-based catalog to the current online catalog. (Oh, how things have changed!) In that time the Library has added access to thousands of electronic journal subscriptions, thousands of e-books, over 100 online databases and hundreds of online music recordings and has acquired thousands of new books. In addition, Jean has authored three books on mystery literature. Jean Swanson is recognized as a trusted colleague and an insightful, conscientious leader by the Armacost Library faculty and staff and by the University of Redlands at large. We celebrate Jean's career and wish her the best retirement has to offer.

Where's the 3rd Floor?

Have you searched for books in the library catalog recently only to find your book located on the 3rd or 4th floor? Armacost Library now lists books by floor instead of using the term General Collection. We are hopeful that these floor designations will eliminate some of the confusion as to where books are located. Books with call numbers A-Q are located on the 3rd Floor and those with call numbers R-Z and Government Documents are all located on the 4th Floor. Signs are posted labeling the location of these floors but keep in mind the entrance to the library is on the 2nd Floor.

May Term in the Library

May Term is upon us which means a new set of library hours! Our hours of operation for May Term are as follows:

Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-10 p.m.

Reference desk hours remain unchanged.
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: 1-9 p.m.

Enjoy your May Term. We look forward to seeing you in the library soon!